Dying Light: The Beast is a prime example of making lemonade when god gives you lemons. Or leakers, in the case of Techland, which revealed it press during previews of the game behind closed doors at Gamescom 2024. Inside a small room, attendees were trucking through a 30-40 minute playthrough of the upcoming Dying Light 2 spin-off. It came as a result of some hard work and creative thinking following a pretty nasty data leak which gave up the plans for some Dying Light 2 DLC.
Instead of proceeding with the plan, one that everyone now knew about, the Techland team decided to pivot into creating The Beast, a kinda halfway measure between a standard DLC and a whole new game. It’s shorter than a full game for sure, and still has the skeleton of Dying Light 2 at its core, but it’s a whole new map with a returning character and some nice new gameplay features that should sweeten the deal.
Kyle Crane from Dying Light 1 is back, and he’s all gruff and moody as you’d expect. He’s spent the last few years locked away in a lab, but now he’s escaped and hunting down the guy who kept him there. To help him get answers and a bit of vengeance he’s got a new sidekick chatting to him over the radio, and some bestial powers that’ll go a long way in keeping him alive. A pretty cool concept for a spin-off – think Dead Rising 2: Off the Record, but swap the hilarity for a sterner, more stoic approach and you arrive at the general vibe on offer here.
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